Hippocrates Collected Works I


Hippocrates Collected Works I



Digital Hippocrates Collection Table of Contents


PREFACE

GENERAL INTRODUCTION
  1. Greek Medicine and Hippocrates
  2. The Hippocratic Collection
  3. Means of Dating Hippocratic Works
  4. Plato's References to Hippocrates
  5. THE COMMENTATORS AND OTHER ANCIENT AUTHORITIES.
  Galen
  6. LIFE OF HIPPOCRATES.
  7. THE ASCLEPIADAE.
  8. THE DOCTRINE OF HUMOURS.
  9. CHIEF DISEASES MENTIONED IN THE HIPPOCRATIC COLLECTION.
  10. POLU/S AND O)LI/GOS IN THE PLURAL.
  11. THE IONIC DIALECT OF THE HIPPOCRATIC COLLECTION.
  12. MANUSCRIPTS.

ANCIENT MEDICINE
  INTRODUCTION
  ANCIENT MEDICINE
  APPENDIX

AIRS WATERS PLACES
  INTRODUCTION
  MSS. AND EDITIONS.
  AIRS WATERS PLACES

EPIDEMICS I AND III
  INTRODUCTION
  EPIDEMICS I
  EPIDEMICS III: THE CHARACTERS
  EPIDEMICS III
  SIXTEEN CASES

THE OATH
  Introduction
  OATH

PRECEPTS
  INTRODUCTION
  PRECEPTS

NUTRIMENT
  INTRODUCTION
  NUTRIMENT

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PRECEPTS

INTRODUCTION
   

(3) It has, like Ancient Medicine, Nutriment, Nature of Man, Airs, Regimen I., a close relationship to philosophy.

(4) It shows, I think conclusively, the wide period covered by the Hippocratic collection.

No reader can fail to notice that, short as it is, the work is a cento with three main divisions.

(1) Chapters I and II defend the principle that medicine must be based upon observed fact and not on any plausible but fallacious hypothesis (ἐκ πιθανῆσ2 ἀναπλάσιοσ2 λόγου). The writer uses language remarkably similar to that attributed to Epicurus by Diogenes Laertius. I must quote two passages from the latter.

(a) καὶ γὰρ καὶ ἐπίνοιαι πᾶς1αι ἀπὸ τῶν αἰσθής1εων γεγόνασι κατά τε περίπτωσιν καὶ ἀναλογίαν καὶ ὁμοιότητα καὶ σν́νθεσιν, συμβαλλομένου τι καὶ τοῦ λογισμοῦ. . . . τὴν δὲ πρόληψιν λέγουσιν οἱονεὶ κατάληψιν, ἢ δόξαν ὀρθήν, ἢ ἔννοιαν, ἢ καθολικὴν νόης1ιν ἐναποκειμένην, τοῦτ' ἐς1τι μνήμην τοῦ πολλάκις2 ἔξωθεν φανέντος2.

D. L., X. 20, 21, 32, 33.

(b) ἀλλὰ μὴν ὑποληπτέον καὶ τὴν τῶν ἀνθρώπων φύς1ιν πολλὰ καὶ παντοῖα ὑπὸ τῶν αὐτὴν περιεστώτων πραγμάτων διδαχθῆναί τε καὶ ἀναγκασθῆναι: τὸν δὲ λογισμὸν τὰ ὑπὸ ταύτης2 παρεγγυηθέντα καὶ ὔστερον ἐπακριβοῦν.

D. L., X. 24, 75.

There are also several occurrences of the Epicurean word ἐναργής2. The similarities are far too close to be accidental.
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